7.4/1019 votes#1 - Lindbergh, Suicide Song, Living Organ Donor
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 7/14/2012
Charles Lindburgh plans to conquer death, but only for the select few. A song is blamed for 18 suicides. Some donate their dead bodies to science, but science wants one man's body while he was still alive.
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- 7.8/1020 votes
#2 - Resurrection Row, Operation Brainwash, Rabid Roulette
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 7/21/2012
Robert Cornish's method for cheating death means a murderer could walk free.The CIA pays Ewen Cameron to invent brainwashing at an awful price for his patients. Louis Pasteur creates a rabies vaccine by gambling with the life of a child.
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- 8.1/1018 votes
#3 - Dr. Lobotomy, Voodoo Rx, Killed by Kindness
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 7/28/2012
Egas Moniz chops up living brains to cure mental illness and gets shot for it. Can words kill? A doctor uses the power of mind to save his patient. George Price proves human kindness is an illusion and it drives him to suicide.
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- 8.0/1021 votes
#4 - Amnesiac, Party Poopers, Risky Radiation
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 8/4/2012
Brain surgery creates a perfect amnesiac who can't remember his own life from day to day. A scientist goes to extremes to prove his theory and save lives. A tiny slip while testing the core of an A-bomb releases a blast of radiation.
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- 8.1/1021 votes
#5 - Positively Poisonous, Medusa's Heroin, Beauty and Brains
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 8/11/2012
Fritz Haber feeds the world and murders it with the same technology. Contaminated heroin freezes addicts like statues and the cure uses fetal brain cells. An actress forsees cell-phones and wi-fi but is too beautiful to be taken seriously.
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- 8.1/1019 votes
#6 - Creative Evil, Curiosity Killed Dr. Katskee, Bat-Bomb
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 8/18/2012
The Stanford Prison Experiment, one of the most notorious in the history of science. A doctor takes a lethal dose of cocaine as a medical experiment. A dentist tries to bomb Japan with tiny bombs carried by millions of bats.
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- 7.5/1019 votes
#7 - Tuskegee STD, Do You See What I See?, Cold War Cold Case
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 8/25/2012
US government experiments illegally on black men with syphilis for 40 years. N-Rays will transform physics in France, if they actually exist. 9 skiers found dead with strange injuries. Was it a quarrel, a secret Soviet weapon, or a yeti?
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- 6.7/1012 votes
#8 - Agent Orange, Ben Franklin: Fraud Slayer, Price of Beauty
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/21/2012
A chemical that speeds up the flowering process of soybeans and was used as a weapon during the Vietnam War is examined. Also: the origins of hypnotism; a deadly beauty treatment.
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- 7.8/1011 votes
#9 - Unabomber, Get the Lead Out, Salvation by Starvation
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/28/2012
Examining a psychological experiment that Ted Kaczynski (aka the Unabomber) underwent during his teenage years. Also: leaded-gasoline poisonings; a look at Russian scientists who protected their work from the Nazis during World War II.
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- 7.5/1011 votes
#10 - Remote Control Man, Cadavers for Sale, Einstein's Revenge
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 12/5/2012
Jose Delgado begins to discover how to electronically control the mind. A doctor at Edinburgh University doesn't ask any questions when two men begin supplying him with fresh human cadavers. Scientist Phillip Lenard leads a vendetta against Einstein.
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- 6.0/101 votes
#11 - Pavlovs Children, Raining Aliens, Glow Girls
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 12/12/2012
Pavlovian experiments are performed on orphans; red rain that appears to contain biological cells falls in India; a glow-in-the-dark paint used during World War I contains a deadly ingredient.
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- 8.2/1012 votes
#12 - Theremin, The Monster Study, Roid Rage
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 12/19/2012
A musical genius is forced to create the most brilliant piece of spy technology ever. Wendell Johnson turns his own stutter into a research topic, but it takes a twist in when he experiments on orphans. Dr John Ziegler introduces steroids to athletes.
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- 7.4/1013 votes
#13 - Magical Jet Propulsion, Missing Link Mystery, Typhoid Mary
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 12/26/2012
One man combined the occult and rockets to produce the technology that underpinned Mutually Assured Destruction. A skull found in 1912 seems to solve Darwin's puzzle of where we came from. Mary Mallon infects hundreds with typhoid despite being healthy.
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The Best Episodes of Dark Matters: Twisted But True Season 2
Every episode of Dark Matters: Twisted But True Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Dark Matters: Twisted But True Season 2!
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Season 2 Ratings Summary
"Lindbergh, Suicide Song, Living Organ Donor" is the best rated episode of "Dark Matters: Twisted But True" season 2. It scored 7.4/10 based on 19 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 7/14/2012. This episode is rated 0.4 points higher than the second-best, "Resurrection Row, Operation Brainwash, Rabid Roulette".